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What a day: bus and dogs

Published 2013/07/09 by Daoyuan Li

Almost ran over by a bus at a crossroad when I was riding home from work, I jammed the brakes on and hear the rubbing sound of my bicycle tyre against the ashalt. Fortunately it stopped quickly and the bus was not running very fast, and it slowed down too. I was lucky that I had tuned the bike brakes a fews weeks back so that it can actually stop, not decelerate, in a short time.

After another block I kinda calmed down but two dogs started chasing me. They were barking and close to me. I had to lift my legs up in afraid of their bites. But then the bike slowed down and it almost ran onto the curb. Fortunately enough, the dogs stopped chasing.

So in a way I was lucky not having ended up in the hospital today, I guess there should be some good news for me in the next few days…

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归国两周感受

Published 2012/10/07 by Daoyuan Li

回来半个月了，目前总体上还比较适应国内的大环境，因为之前没敢期待太高，所以没有什么心里落差。但是生活中还是有一些小小的感触，先记录在此。

首先是物价，已经远不是我三年前出国时候的水平了。到南通第一天去逛超市什么都不敢买，洗发水跟芬兰一个价，浴巾比宜家的贵质量还不好，欧莱雅的洗面奶芬兰超市卖8欧这边卖100块，进了趟超市买一袋东西两三百就出去了……终于理解到了什么叫物价赶英超美，现在英美都不在话下了，开始赶超北欧了。回来两周小心翼翼的花钱，算下来还是花了四千多，但是花在哪儿我一点印象都没有。

其次是网购，太方便了。京东一般情况下第二天就可以送货上门，还支持货到付款。不过网购的缺点却很明显，就是不知道物品质量到底如何。我在京东上买了一个床上三件套，收到后发现这个三件套是一个床单加两个枕套，太让人无语了，一不小心就上当了。

人们生活节奏都很快，在高速公路上都是不停变道，不停的鸣笛，堵车了更是挤来挤去，越堵越挤，越挤越堵。市区也是，大家经常闯红灯，各种不遵守交通规则。我最受不了的就是大家一直在不停的鸣笛，不管是什么车，卡车也好，三轮车也罢，司机手都随时按照喇叭上。在小区里面也吵个不停，晚上都一样。总体来说节奏快的结果是周围都很吵，旁边的工地一天24小时都有机器轰鸣，中秋十一八天假也是这样。我刚回来的时候早上经常五点多就被吵醒，不过适应了一段时间之后感觉也习惯了。

年轻人会说英语的还挺多的，长途汽车站的售票员基本业务上的英语都会，跟老外打交道没什么问题。另外服务行业的从业人员整体态度都还比较好，去银行柜台后面的人都知道微笑，说话也慢条斯理；公交司机也比较有礼貌；但是被服务的人素质参差不齐，插队的情况也时有发生。总体来说年轻人比中老年人素质高，受的教育愈好素质愈高。

总体来说这两周的感受偏正面，以后想到什么再加。

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Living in town and working in countryside

Published 2012/05/29 by Daoyuan Li

This morning I had to go to Helsinki city center to pick up some office equipment, and once I got on the bus I noticed something different from my daily routine: I couldn’t find a seat that no one was sitting beside, which is quite rare when I go to/back from work. Before this I had always thought that there isn’t enough people in Finland even to fill a bus… It became more obvious when the bus in driving away from the highway and begin entering the city center: there was roughly one km queue of traffic waiting, I thought only big cities have this kind of problems. Turned out I was wrong.

One hour later when I was going back to work from Helsinki center, I got onto a bus in which I was the only passenger — for more than 10km. After that there were three of us all the way to my workplace. And after we got off, the bus was empty again — of course the driver was still there… Living inside ring one and working outside ring three certainly has some benefits: one never needs to worry about crowded public transportation.

Things become quite different when you take them for granted, isn’t it?

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